THE CONGRESS: Public Lands

The Senate Public Lands Committee (TIME, Aug. 17, Sept. 14, 21) last week
saw a great deal of public land, and heard a great many public
complaints. The western Senators who are on the
Committee—Stanfield, Oddie, Cameron, Gooding—come up for re-election
next year, and are very keen to please the complainants. So much will
be heard of those complaints next winter in Washington.

Particularly cattlemen, who have been almost ruined by recent
conditions, want permits to graze in the public for perpetuity with fees
only large enough...